The highly rated HP Pavilion Slimline PC thread

The antenna box is the perfect size to boost up the screen :D, it was a temporary fix that I have now been using for almost two years, have to paint it black.

I have the original 160 watt PSU and have never had any stability issues related to power, though I am not much of a gamer I did have stability issues related to heat before installing the two fans that pull the air from the inside of the desk.
 
SlimKiwi said:
CHF0

Please post the outcome of your situation. It would really be nice to find a 300W PSU that actually fits - and works! (just in case it's ever needed)
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I was told that this is the wrong model for the slimlines and they recommended the Sparkle. I mentioned I found the KDM MFX9300 via Google, which linked to his website. He just had me return it and gave me a full refund. I'll just have to leave my pc on until I get a new psu.
 
Thanks for the update, CHF0. It appears that the Stock 160W PSU can deliver a lot more juice than advertised - or everyone is playing it safe by overstating the power requirements. Like milicz, I've had no power problems whatsoever, but it would be nice to find a 300W or more "no brainer" replacement - just in case. Chances of that happening appear to be slim - considering the age of the 3-series Slims. I'll prolly have to upgrade to one of those sexy 5-series Slims, if and when my PSU gives up the ghost.
 
The 5 series is too deep and won't fit in my desk setup, I don't get why HP went bigger when everything is getting smaller, the beauty of the slimline was the small size, not just the fact that it is slim, as its name indicates.
 
I cannot agree more with you on this. The 5 series now is simply yet-another-desktop-PC. No charm what so ever. That's why I kept my 3-series case even after the M/B is dead. I am hoping one day to bring it back to life by putting in a mini-ITX Atom board.
 
There is a low profile version of the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 from Palit available on Newegg, if anyone is interested. Keep in mind, this will definitely require a PSU and cooling upgrade as Fermi GPUs have a reputation of being excessively hot and power-hungry.
 
Halsey said:
There is a low profile version of the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 from Palit available on Newegg, if anyone is interested. Keep in mind, this will definitely require a PSU and cooling upgrade as Fermi GPUs have a reputation of being excessively hot and power-hungry.
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Wow -- that's pretty darn cool. Half makes me want to revive my s3600t from HTPC duty and throw my q9300 quad core back in it. And turn it back into my main rig...

buttttttttt....ughhh....ummmm

I think too much hardware time has past! I have both a i7-920 and a q9300 gaming system with GTX 460 and 8GB and 12GB RAM and I just bought a new Cooler Master Cosmos 1010 case to house one of those toys in...I'd better just keep it in HTPC duty I suppose. However it truly is exciting to see that kind of power being put into a small form factor PC!!!!
 
Good day all,

Wondering if anyone has a link to some tech info in regards to the iR wiring on the s5000 line. I picked up an s5560f and immediately dropped an extra 2GB RAM in it as well as popped the HD5450 and Hauppage tv-tuner out and put them aside for an htpc project. I put a sappphire 5570 in and it seems to run just fine, 50fps in Daalaran in WoW and that maes me happy the 5450 had a hard time maintaining 20fps.

Anyway I m curious about the iR as there is a small daughter board that has 2 connections on it from the Hauppage tuner as well as a third connection to the front card reader and I'm interested in figuring out what the heck that connection to the front card reader is for, is it simply a connection for iR for the remote? The reason I want to know is I have an older s3000 case with a new sparkle 270W psu, an Irvine GL6E mobo that I had planned to mod a wee bit to put the rear iR connector for the blaster on the back grille. eems as though I may need to pick up and possibly mod it to make the remote work and thus I'm asking if anyone knows any tech info about that front card reader.

Thanks!
 
Has anyone ever modified their case to fit, say, a gtx 460? I know Palit has a low profile 450 out, but I'd like a little more power than that, without spending on more than the GPU and PSU. I have an s3127c, and have already modded a 120mm fan to the side, like Archaea had.
I was also wondering if anyone has successfully installed an AM3 CPU on the HematiteXL mobo, such as the Athlon II x2 260 Regor. I know someone, somewhere modded to bios to add support, but I can't find it. I plan, instead of buying the Sparkle 270 PSU for $80 on CensusPC, to get the ePower EP-450CD, similar to what others have used.

Suggestions?
 
ytzone said:
Does anyone know if the Shuttle PC63 500W will fit?
Here are the specs: http://www.shuttle.eu/products/xpc-accessories/pc63/

If not, I guess I will try out the Shuttle PC60 300W.
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Welcome to [H]!

Dimensions of the standard OEM Slimline PSU are ~230mm x ~82mm x ~50mm (LWH), and dimensions of the Shuttle PC63 are, as stated, 200 x 82 x 53 mm (LWH).

In terms of dimensions, the Shuttle PC63 is a very close match. Unfortunately, its height is 3mm greater than the height of the stock OEM PSU - it may be too tall. I'm not saying it won't work, just that I don't know if there is ~3mm of spare space between the top of the heatsink and the top of the case. If there is room, it will be a very tight fit. Regarding it's length, keep in mind the 200mm listed doesn't include space taken up by extra cables.
 
Anyone know off the top of their head if there are any AM2+ mini-itx boards out there that have pci-e 16x and 1 x slots like the foxconn irvine gl6?
 
As outlined in this forum I ordered and received a Nvidia GEFORCE 9500GS. As it turns out, my Slimline is a s7421 and the card won't fit. Anyone know if there is a market for this card.
 
Hi! I'm new to the board and figured I would share a customer build I did in the HP Slimline. I don't have any pictures, but I built the system from scratch in the case, which I bought cheaply of ebay for it's design.

I removed the front HP-external HDD loading dock and wires, and mounted a Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 itx board inside, with the stock intel cooler on an Intel I3-530 @ stock speed, with 4gb DDR3-1333 from Corsair, and a Sapphire 5570 low-profile 1GB card. Inside the HDD cage I have placed a 2x 2.5" drive adapter, in which I have installed a Corsair F40 40gb SSD and WD 160GB laptop drive. The SSD houses the OS and games, while the standard disk houses media and programs. The DVD drive is being ran external VIA e-sata and a power adapter to save space and heat inside the case.

All in all this thing is a beast and handles everything the customer has thrown at it. He's currently playing Fallout: New Vegas on it at high-res, high detail, without so much as a hiccup. As for power supply issues, I used a 270W FSP model from newegg that was fairly cheap. I noticed a lot of people seem to be running older hardware and questioning if this PC can take next-gen systems, and I am pleased to report it can! I can't speak from experience of the stock hardware, but you most certainly can build a nice gaming rig in this PC.
 
HeLRaZR said:
Anyone know off the top of their head if there are any AM2+ mini-itx boards out there that have pci-e 16x and 1 x slots like the foxconn irvine gl6?
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Ok I'm quoting myself which is retarded, but I found my answer, the ASUS APX78-BN is the motherboard I want, now can anyone tell me what cooler was on this on the 3700's from HP?
 
HeLRaZR said:
Ok I'm quoting myself which is retarded, but I found my answer, the ASUS APX78-BN is the motherboard I want, now can anyone tell me what cooler was on this on the 3700's from HP?
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According to HP PartsSurfer, its the 5188-7994 LGA 775-type heatsink used on earlier s3000 series Slimlines.
 
cephusjed said:
According to HP PartsSurfer, its the 5188-7994 LGA 775-type heatsink used on earlier s3000 series Slimlines.
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Thank you

For some reason partsurfer.hp.com is iving me fits right now, finds two models but won't pop up the javascript window and I haqven't had the time to fix it. much appreciated.

EDIT: Yeah that look like the Taisol HSF assembly, just trying to verify the part.
 
I got a HP 5000 series, does anyone have a replacement power switch? I am peacing one together that was given to me, had I known about the power button prior to buying the power supply I prob would have bought a new case/psu.
 
I'm a bit intimidated to post here, but perhaps someone will have a bit of mercy and spare some time to help out a true beginner.

I have an s3020n that has been working fine for years. I started reading through this thread and decided I might try a few upgrades. After successfully upgrading the RAM to 2GB, the video card was next.

I read through the very first post from Archaea and decided upon an ATI 4550. I have no experience purchasing video cards, so I just bought one before asking real detailed questions--smart. I purchased the Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 512M DDR3 PCI-E HDMI/DVI/VGA card (it had a 4550 in it, so that's what I went for).

Followed the directions for the install by disabling the onboard graphics (through the device manager), shutting down, and then popping in the card. Nothing came up onscreen when I booted up, so I switched the monitor from the new card back to the motherboard VGA port. The onboard was still listed as disabled and the new card wasn't listed in the device manager). I went into the BIOS and set the primary video adapter as PCI-E, but don't see any other settings in there. I've tried rebooting a couple of times, uninstalling the ATI softward and reloading that, etc.

At this point, I still can't get video through any of the new cards ports (tried them all). The card fit okay in the case and it "popped" in when I installed it. I guess I could pull it out and retry that, but it fit pretty nicely, so I didn't think that would be the issue.

Anyone have any ideas for what I might try next?
 
**********LOCKING SYSTEM FOR S5000 SERIES SLIMLINE**********

Folks, I have a S5000 series slimline in a shared office situation. I'm worried that one of the office partners will leave the door open on a bathroom run, when no one else is there, and someone might come in and steal stuff.

I already have a security lock for my mac mini, but I'm looking for something to secure the S5000 slimline to my desk as well.

So far I can seem to find anything specifically for securing a slimline class PC to a desk. And I can't find a security lock port on the back of the case (at least not labeled such).

Any help would be appreciated.
 
JJRonk said:
I'm a bit intimidated to post here, but perhaps someone will have a bit of mercy and spare some time to help out a true beginner.

I have an s3020n that has been working fine for years. I started reading through this thread and decided I might try a few upgrades. After successfully upgrading the RAM to 2GB, the video card was next.

I read through the very first post from Archaea and decided upon an ATI 4550. I have no experience purchasing video cards, so I just bought one before asking real detailed questions--smart. I purchased the Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 512M DDR3 PCI-E HDMI/DVI/VGA card (it had a 4550 in it, so that's what I went for).

Followed the directions for the install by disabling the onboard graphics (through the device manager), shutting down, and then popping in the card. Nothing came up onscreen when I booted up, so I switched the monitor from the new card back to the motherboard VGA port. The onboard was still listed as disabled and the new card wasn't listed in the device manager). I went into the BIOS and set the primary video adapter as PCI-E, but don't see any other settings in there. I've tried rebooting a couple of times, uninstalling the ATI softward and reloading that, etc.

At this point, I still can't get video through any of the new cards ports (tried them all). The card fit okay in the case and it "popped" in when I installed it. I guess I could pull it out and retry that, but it fit pretty nicely, so I didn't think that would be the issue.

Anyone have any ideas for what I might try next?
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I installed one of those cards on a HematiteXL (later on Acacia). I seem to recall that it made no difference whether PCIe was enabled or not in BIOS on both boards: the Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 was enabled/ on board graphics disabled in any case. Try the card on another computer. If it doesn't work you have a DOA. If it does work you possibly have a bad PCIe slot.
 
Okay, thanks for confirming that the card should work. I'll have to grab a friend's PC and start testing.
 
gamedeveloper said:
**********LOCKING SYSTEM FOR S5000 SERIES SLIMLINE**********

Folks, I have a S5000 series slimline in a shared office situation. I'm worried that one of the office partners will leave the door open on a bathroom run, when no one else is there, and someone might come in and steal stuff.

I already have a security lock for my mac mini, but I'm looking for something to secure the S5000 slimline to my desk as well.

So far I can seem to find anything specifically for securing a slimline class PC to a desk. And I can't find a security lock port on the back of the case (at least not labeled such).

Any help would be appreciated.
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there should be one on the back near the sidecover/back transition, where the case is strongest and can also provide locking for the side panel (so nobody opens up your computer without unlocking, either).

*should* be that elongated hole above the screw hole on the side panel

 
jeremyshaw said:
there should be one on the back near the sidecover/back transition, where the case is strongest and can also provide locking for the side panel (so nobody opens up your computer without unlocking, either).

*should* be that elongated hole above the screw hole on the side panel

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...and THAT is why this is the best thread on the internet!

:)

Thanks!
 
roinujnomma said:
Has anyone modified the slimline case to fit a full size GTX 460 (or even bigger)?
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Yes I have very successfully installed a GTX 470 into a Slimline. It runs flawlessly. I posted this 5-19-2010. Wish I could show you the pictures but I still cannot figure out how to post them.
 
Slimfast said:
Yes I have very successfully installed a GTX 470 into a Slimline. It runs flawlessly. I posted this 5-19-2010. Wish I could show you the pictures but I still cannot figure out how to post them.
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Upload them to imageshack and just link them here :)
 
So I cannot as yet post in the wanted forums as I don't have a high enough post count after being a 6+ year lurker. Please have a mod delete this post if it is innappropriate to ask but I am looking for an HP mini-itx board AM2 socket board either the M2NC51-AR or M2N61-AR as I need a pci slot. I'm frankly tired of buying motherboards off fleabay, I have had 1 in 4 work and it's retarded wasting time and money for shipping defective parts back all the time. please let me know if anyone here has one for a reasonable price, I've checked the buy/sell forum and nothing there right now.

Also anyone with the Pegatron APX78-BN able to post some pics of the antenna set up inside the case? I have a spare kit from a dv2-1132ax but am wondering if the wires from a broadcom 802.11g card will suffice as I do not have the kit for this although I do have the atheros dual band 802.11n card the s3750y came with.

Thanks!
 
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Slimfast said:
Yes I have very successfully installed a GTX 470 into a Slimline. It runs flawlessly. I posted this 5-19-2010. Wish I could show you the pictures but I still cannot figure out how to post them.
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This I HAVE to see. :D
 
HeLRaZR said:
So I cannot as yet post in the wanted forums as I don't have a high enough post count after being a 6+ year lurker. Please have a mod delete this post if it is innappropriate to ask but I am looking for an HP mini-itx board AM2 socket board either the M2NC51-AR or M2N61-AR as I need a pci slot. I'm frankly tired of buying motherboards off fleabay, I have had 1 in 4 work and it's retarded wasting time and money for shipping defective parts back all the time. please let me know if anyone here has one for a reasonable price, I've checked the buy/sell forum and nothing there right now.

Also anyone with the Pegatron APX78-BN able to post some pics of the antenna set up inside the case? I have a spare kit from a dv2-1132ax but am wondering if the wires from a broadcom 802.11g card will suffice as I do not have the kit for this although I do have the atheros dual band 802.11n card the s3750y came with.

Thanks!
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Get an ASUS mITX or Gigabyte mITX board. Granted, none are AM2 (ASUS is AM3) and both require different types of ram (ASUS SODIMM DDR3; Gigabyte DDR3), but either will blow away the really low quality boards inside these HP units. Granted, you cannot use the LGA775 cooler the HP slimline s3000 use, either...


For the wifi, one wire goes the external antenna. The other uses one of the laptop wifi antennas and goes to a screw on the front panel (under the plastic face).
 
Please be patient with me, I am an absolute beginner when it comes to computers. As with a lot of people in this forum, I am having trouble with my graphics card. I have a s3xxx slimline (that's about all I know). Was working for 2 years, now stopped working. It is a GeForce 8500GT.

I know the forum said they eventually stop working, but is there ANY way to get it to work again? All of the solutions I've read here are a bit advanced for me (buy a new PSU and modify the case to make it fit). Is there ANYTHING ELSE I can do? Is there a PSU that fits neatly without any case modifications? Is there a new graphics card just as good or better than the GeForce 8500GT that I can just plug into the PCI slot that runs on 180W? I've tried other things like unplugging the DVD, some USBs, to no avail.

Thanks!
 
Slimfast, did you just cut a hole in the side of your case, so the video card could stick out? I plan on doing this, and using Epower's 5.25" suplementary PSU. What kind of temps are you getting? What model of Slimline do you have? What CPU are you using, and how much memory do you have? Could you e-mail me the pics? I'm just trying to figure out how crazy maybe I am.

I'd also like to know from anyone how much power a gtx 460 of 470 draws from the motherboard. Maybe a link to where someone else has answered it.
 
jeremyshaw said:
Get an ASUS mITX or Gigabyte mITX board. Granted, none are AM2 (ASUS is AM3) and both require different types of ram (ASUS SODIMM DDR3; Gigabyte DDR3), but either will blow away the really low quality boards inside these HP units. Granted, you cannot use the LGA775 cooler the HP slimline s3000 use, either...
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Indeed I would do that, I simply have all of the guts from a machine with an ASUS M2N51-AR rig and all the other parts and pieces work execpt the mobo. As I had mentioned I'm simply tired of purchasing "GUARANTEED WORKIN" motherboards off fleabay. Going the other route would work fine, but I have a low profile gigabit NIC (PCI) and simply needed a mobo for a vail test rig.


jeremyshaw said:
For the wifi, one wire goes the external antenna. The other uses one of the laptop wifi antennas and goes to a screw on the front panel (under the plastic face).
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Same setup on the 802.11n capable units as the older 802.11g s3000's then yes? Thanks for the reply by the way.
 
TheOnlyFTG said:
Please be patient with me, I am an absolute beginner when it comes to computers. As with a lot of people in this forum, I am having trouble with my graphics card. I have a s3xxx slimline (that's about all I know). Was working for 2 years, now stopped working. It is a GeForce 8500GT.

I know the forum said they eventually stop working, but is there ANY way to get it to work again? All of the solutions I've read here are a bit advanced for me (buy a new PSU and modify the case to make it fit). Is there ANYTHING ELSE I can do? Is there a PSU that fits neatly without any case modifications? Is there a new graphics card just as good or better than the GeForce 8500GT that I can just plug into the PCI slot that runs on 180W? I've tried other things like unplugging the DVD, some USBs, to no avail.

Thanks!
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Before you read this, do you have 6 audio ports (HematiteXL) on the back of your PC, or 3 audio ports (Acacia)?

Buy a new PSU :(
I had a s3430f, and it was configed with an AMD Phenom X4 9100e, and a 8500gt. The 8500gt draws around 40W, which combined with the Phenom quad was maxing out the PSU. It frequently had random shutdowns while doing nothing but sitting on the desktop during the summer. Eventually, I replaced the GPU with an AMD HD4350 and the issue has went away for ~2 years, so far (crosses fingers...).

Is the computer working, or is just the GPU broken?

I guess one more thing to try:

Remove the GPU. Remove the VGA port cover on the mobo (it's a black cover with a yellow warning sticket).

See if it still works.

HOWEVER, if you have an older HematiteXL mobo, you're out of luck :( HP got a class action lawsuit over this, and the extended warranty for this is expired, now.
HeLRaZR said:
Same setup on the 802.11n capable units as the older 802.11g s3000's then yes? Thanks for the reply by the way.
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I'm sorry, I don't know :( I only have a WiFi-G unit.
 
jeremyshaw said:
Before you read this, do you have 6 audio ports (HematiteXL) on the back of your PC, or 3 audio ports (Acacia)?

Buy a new PSU :(
I had a s3430f, and it was configed with an AMD Phenom X4 9100e, and a 8500gt. The 8500gt draws around 40W, which combined with the Phenom quad was maxing out the PSU. It frequently had random shutdowns while doing nothing but sitting on the desktop during the summer. Eventually, I replaced the GPU with an AMD HD4350 and the issue has went away for ~2 years, so far (crosses fingers...).

Is the computer working, or is just the GPU broken?

I guess one more thing to try:

Remove the GPU. Remove the VGA port cover on the mobo (it's a black cover with a yellow warning sticket).

See if it still works.

HOWEVER, if you have an older HematiteXL mobo, you're out of luck :( HP got a class action lawsuit over this, and the extended warranty for this is expired, now.


I'm sorry, I don't know :( I only have a WiFi-G unit.
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I have 3 audio ports, and "Acacia" did ring a bell. I also think that I have an Irvine MB (I think?). I have a Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 3.33GHz with 4GB RAM (if that helps). My computer has never randomly shut down, the graphics card just stopped working (although the fan would "rev" several times when I first powered on the computer. The fan would spin, but I's get nothing on the screen. And yes, I went into the BIOS and selected PCI and all that...).

The computer is working fine, and I don't think the GPU is broken either since the fan is still spinning, although I am going to take in and they will hopefull tell me for sure that it is working. Just the drawbacks of now graphics card (can't play games, horrible video editing..)

I know that most likely I'll have to get a new PSU, but my question was WHICH kind? Is there ANY that I don't have to modify the casing, that I can just plug and go? OR, is there a 8500GT comparable GPU that works on the default 180W PSU? By the way, how does that AMD HD4350 compare to the 8500GT? I would really like one equal to or better than since I want to play my video game exactly the way I was playing before.
 
In my experience, the HD4350 cleans the floor with the 8500gt. I have both cards :)

I've used them on both a:
Phenom X4 9100e 4GB (Slimline S3430f)
Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB (Slimline S3200n CTO)

and the results are identical, the HD4350 is faster*, and it runs a good deal cooler (the PSU doesn't run anywhere near as hot).

I think you do have an Irvine, I'm sorry, I jumped to assume you had an AMD system.

The stock PSU is it. There still is the Sparkle 270W listed on the first page, but it's noisey without some minor metalwork.



*empirically. I only used Cod4/5 and Age of Empires 3 as the references. All at 1600x900 resolution. Cod4/5 was playable on dead min settings with the 8500gt, for me. The HD4350 allowed me to at elast run it at native resolution, with extremely fluid gameplay. I ran Cod5's tank mission without any pause, stuttering, or slowdown at 1600x900p, max everything but AA and soft smoke edges.
 
Quick question, was the m2n51-ar replaced by the m2n61-ar? Anyone have a link or info to the class action suit I keep hearing about but am not certain of the reasons for it?
 
HeLRaZR said:
Quick question, was the m2n51-ar replaced by the m2n61-ar? Anyone have a link or info to the class action suit I keep hearing about but am not certain of the reasons for it?
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HematiteXL was never replaced by Acacia. When I got my out of warranty (but still under class action) replacement, I just got a newer HematiteXL mobo with a bigger chipset heatsink. The extended warranty expired Dec. 2009.

Both are more or less identical, except Acacia uses a newer revision of the nForce4 chipset that only has one chip (newer, unified), while the HematiteXL has two chips (older, still two seperate ASICs). Also, HematiteXL has 6 audio out ports, while Acacia only has 3.


EDIT: if you want a link, I cannot find it. It used to be in the extra info section of my s3200n's warranty box...
 
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Ahh I see, so they were sold concurrently, just depended upon your config as to what motheroard you'd end up with I assume.
 
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